Beekeeping – 8 books

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Home farm handbook.

FORD, Peter.
Collins, London 1999.
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128p, colour photos of breeds. Laminated boards. Includes, Chicken, Ducks, Geese, Goats and Bees.

Price: $30
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order number: 28000




Bees in their bonnets. Being an account of some of the personalities and something of the growth of early beekeeping, 'farthest south'.

LENNON, W.J.
Benyon Printing, Timaru 1948.
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40p, photos. Boards. Name erased on title page.

Price: $40
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order number: 22322




P. Virgilii Maronis: Bucolica et Georgica, with notes.

MARTYN, John.
J. Vincent, Oxford 1829.
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284(xi)p, 10 plates. Half calf binding with gilt decorated spine, rubbed but sound. The English 'notes' are more extensive than the original Latin text.

Price: $100
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order number: 20206




Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1865.

NEWTON, I.
Government Printing Office, Washington 1866.
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608p, 32 plates (19 of fruit varieties, 12 of livestock). Articles on; Popular varieties of hardy fruit, Native fruits of the Far West, American forests, Botanical history of sorghum, The grape disease in Europe, Madder, China grass, Dairy farming, Cattle farming on the Pampas, Longwool sheep, American merino, Bee keeping, etc. Ex lib New Zealand General Assembly, with gilt stamp on front board and base of spine, and bookplate. But no rubber stamps. Spine worn and one hinge split. The livestock plates are; 5 of Shorthorns, A boar, and 6 of sheep.

Price: $50
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order number: 10391




Use of beeswax for Museum exhibits.

NORMAN, Valerie M.
Dominion Museum Hbk 2, Wellington 1942.
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12p pamphlet, 8 photos.

Price: $5
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order number: 10979




Bibliography of New Zealand apiculture, 1842-1986.

REID, Murray et al.
Ministry of Agriculture, Tauranga 1988.
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xxxi,140p 4to. Wrappers. Also includes bumble bees and other members of the genus Apis.

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order number: 23623




The ABC of bee culture: A cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee.

ROOT, A.L.
A.L. Root, Medina 1903.
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x,482p, 4 photo frontis, plates, photos and engravings. First published n 1877, this is the 85th thousand revised by E.R. Root. Includes the biographies of many noted bee-keepers. Good copy of an early printing.

Price: $70
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order number: 23604




The Georgics.

VIRGIL (Publius Vergilius Maro).
Folio Society, London 1959.
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96p royal 8vo, plates of etchings by Nigel Lambourne. Translated into English verse by K.R. MacKenzie. In slip case.

Price: $35
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order number: 11135




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